TY - BOOK ID - 15768224 TI - Challenges in elder care AU - Edward T. Zawada Jr. AU - Zawada, Edward T. PY - 2016 SN - 9535126652 9535126644 9535141775 PB - IntechOpen DB - UniCat KW - Older people KW - Care. KW - Elder care KW - Eldercare KW - Medicine KW - Geriatric Intensive-Care Unit KW - Health Sciences KW - Geriatrics and Gerontology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15768224 AB - This work is intended as a brief but focused compilation to assist with diagnosis and management of the most common serious medical problems in the rapidly growing geriatric population. The geriatric population recently expanded by the fact that the baby boomers have reached the milestone of 65 years of age in the past 5 years. Tips for diagnosis, medication administration, and logistics of cost-effective management in the health-care continuum are presented in this book. The latter often consists of a journey from home to medical office to emergency room to hospital bed to intensive care unit to long-term acute care hospital to skilled nursing facility to long-term residential facility and/or back home, which is also reviewed in the book Geriatrics. ER -